Word: roared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Without apparent warning, there is a terrific roar of pistol shots, and men in the front ranks of the marchers go down like grass before a scythe. The camera catches approximately a dozen falling simultaneously in a heap. The roar of the police pistols lasts perhaps two or three seconds. Instantly the police charge on the marchers with riot sticks flying...
...echoed the fervid words of his present Commander-in-Chief, "I hate war." Few would deny that they love to play at war, particularly when they may pick their own playgrounds and seasons. Last week two of 1937's three major U. S. war games were in full roar...
...they were joined by some 10,000 sympathetic workers from other mills. For a while the ugly-tempered crowd contented itself with milling, muttering, shying an occasional stone through plant windows. Suddenly some 300 men detached themselves from the main body and, while the mob set up a terrifying roar, battered their way through a line of 100 policemen, stormed through doors and windows, beat down the guards inside, commenced a Sit-Down. While 40 battlers licked their wounds, company officials promptly commenced negotiations with C. I. O.'s American Federation of Hosiery Workers...
...summer of 1923, the U. S. S. Milwaukee lay in the harbor of Pago-Pago, second port of a long shakedown cruise to Suva, Sydney, Rabaul, Nouméa, etc. Coming on deck that morning I heard the engine roar of one of the biplanes she carried, and as I stepped over the hatch coaming I saw the plane just beginning to lift from the thrust of the catapult. Almost immediately, from an elevation of, perhaps, two hundred feet, she fell into the bay. Thus ended man's first brief flight in Samoa...
...Hershey stadium. After speakers had whipped the crowd into a fury, making good use of the C. I. O. banner which strikers had raised above the U. S. flag over the factory, somebody began to boom through a loudspeaker: "Let's go to the factory!" With a roar some 3,000 farmers and non-union workers seized clubs, whips knives, and banners labeled DOWN WITH THE C. I. O., swarmed down Chocolate Avenue past weeping Mr. Hershey, smashed in the factory doors, pounced on the Sit-Downers. Men pounded, pummeled, jabbed. Sit-Downers were soon trotting out with arms...